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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhoa!!! Joe Scar off on a rant: "Repuke Convention should have put G. W. Bush on stage
and embraced him!" Vomit inducing tirade!
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)Atleast ti would be a rare moment of honesty.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)peace13
(11,076 posts)I can just see the entire convention center looking under their seats for weapons of mass destruction! Why oh why were we denied that scene!
still_one
(92,422 posts)plus raising the notch on Iran
Proud Public Servant
(2,097 posts)Of course, I say that as a Democrat...
barnabas63
(1,214 posts)TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)...and I can't find a single one who is proud of Bush's presidency. They all see him for what he is now that the damage is done.
Joe is delusional.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)brewens
(13,622 posts)tell how Shrubs presidency is seen. I'd say that can only get worse.
In all fairness, I'd say it would have been tough for whoever was elected in 2004 to have prevented the economic collapse. Even if they realized what was coming, fixing it would have been a problem. How could you have explained the danger without spooking everyone and ending up being blamed for causing it? How do you gently shrink a bubble? Even if Bush realized what was happening, he would have played it for everyone to suck as much wealth up as they could before it burst, so he deserves all the blame we can pile on.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)and contributed indirectly to the crash.
newspeak
(4,847 posts)also, during little boot's reign job creation went down and decent jobs also went bye bye. The ones who appear to have made it big time are the wealthy and global corporations. During little boot's nightmare, the disparity in this country between the rich and poor has increased to such an extent, I think it's worse than the 1920s.
yeah, I think they should have brought in the sociopath. Watching him would have reminded me of his little joke at our expense-how he hit the trifecta. How many times did he repeat that obscene statement publicly. Then there's the hilarious act of looking for those darn WMDs under a desk. Yeah, little boots, you're killing the american people with laughter or are you just killing them?
and, of course, I won't be forgetting the big pharma giveaway while screwing my elderly relatives. Every time they fall into that bogus donut hole and can't afford their medications, I think of you, georgie.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)"I wish Bush was still in office".
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)if he wants to have a prayer of even getting elected dog catcher in 2016.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)I have no doubt that four huge guys in black T-shirts would have run up to him, Tazered him, and dragged his ass out as quickly as possible before the cameras could see him.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)winstars
(4,220 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)to be their N°1 strategist between now and Nov.!
Get those campaign ads up with Shrub heartily endorsing Mitt--saturate the airwaves!
That's the ticket--victory assured!
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)They have two Bushes and they are both dicks. I never get tired of saying that.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)kind of latter-day Repuke hero!
After what you tried to do to Clinton during his two terms, now he's your "bipartisan" savior?
Bite me, you dickwads!
Cosmocat
(14,574 posts)I remember the 90s vividly.
They hated Bill Clinton with EVERY fiber of their being, the same at BO.
People place too much on the race aspect.
They race bait for sure, but most of the republicans don't hate BO because he is black.
They hate him because he is a D.
If he were a R, like Pizza twit or the lunatic Allen West, they would LOVE him.
They hated Kennedy just the same, and like Kennedy, the farther you get away from him being in office, the more they don't mind him.
EVERY republican I knew in the 90s hated Clinton, today, 9 out of 10 say, "Clinton wasn't bad, I would take him ..."
Yeah, OK.
Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)A lot of it was because they fully expected to hold a Republican majority for a long time. That's when the trashing of Democrats in general, and liberals in particular, really picked up steam.
Cosmocat
(14,574 posts)I was at the gym (older people always want to watch Faux there) and Faux reported that the Bush admin had put out word that the white house had been "trashed" by the Clinton staff going out the door and they implied VERY strongly there was human feces on desks ... ect.
The people were all aghast around me ...
I said, "do you REALLY believe that?"
They kind of just looked and tried to square it with common sense.
Yeah, the clinton people trashed the white house and left crape on the desks, they just gobbled it up ...
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)loathing was palpable even from over here!
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)A big dose of the decider waving and giggling from the stage. He should have been the guy asking "Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?" All across America thousands of gunshots would have rung out as the TV audience shoot out their TV's in unison.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)that would have completely sunk the convention. eastwood did a fine job toward that end.
but yes, I agree, putting george w. moron* on stage would have been the very best thing for the Dems.
ananda
(28,877 posts)LOL
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Type casting.
agentS
(1,325 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)(To borrow a turn of phrase from the "chicken little" fiscal brigade...)
Renew Deal
(81,877 posts)He should have been up there.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Remind everyone who cut the worst elevator fart in US history, one so bad that the elevator is still declared off-limits to anyone not in a hazmat suit.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,382 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Last edited Mon Sep 10, 2012, 11:50 AM - Edit history (1)
typo edit
Cosmocat
(14,574 posts)in the up is down/down is up world that is the republican party, they absolutely should have had Bush there.
One of their prime directives is to emphasize their negatives as a strength, so why not trot Bush and develop a list of talking points about how great he was and how BO screwed it all up.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)commands and they will react in a predictable manner.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Cosmocat
(14,574 posts)lol ...
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)It already sucked massively. Bringing Shrug out couldn't have made it any worse
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)added just that little degree of "worse".
TlalocW
(15,392 posts)TlalocW
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)He cannot lose gracefully. Either he starts yelling and waving his arms or he goes into full delusional ranting like he did this morning.
Geez, it's 58 days till Election Day. At this rate, Scar will be a raving lunatic in a strait jacket by then...
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Historic NY
(37,453 posts)atreides1
(16,093 posts)Joe probably owes the Bush brothers a lot...especially regarding the whole dead intern thing! Remember, Jeb was governor of Florida when that young lady had her unfortunate "accident"!
No real proof, just a possible theory...
millijac
(85 posts)and was all over George Bush in 2004.
newspeak
(4,847 posts)all this reagan worship didn't happen until after he left office. his back and forth tax cuts (at least he had brains enough to know it wasn't working), his union busting, his iran-contra fiasco, and amnesty international had named reagan one of the bloodiest presidents, especially supporting the death squads in central america. after his presidency, some RW authors published books about reagan's so called legacy. yeah, what a great president he was, and with the help of the media it struck. because some citizens have very, very short term memories.
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)Of course, I believe that Romney is allergic being honest.
polly7
(20,582 posts)I can't imagine they could ignore all the waste in terms of human lives, money, jobs .... they'd have to be completely blind, deaf or just stupid to still embrace him.
Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)I remember seeing that.
Did Romney specifically ask for nothing more? Would Dubya even have come? Joe seems to think it was an insult, so maybe so.
quaker bill
(8,224 posts)They are running on doing more Bush* policy on the theory that it did not work because it was not done hard enough. Since they are running on his "ideas", perhaps they should have embraced him as the "intellectual" father of their proposals. There is an argument for it. It certainly is unseemly to hide from public view the last guy who did all the things you are proposing to do...
I get why they kept him hidden. However, a better choice would have been to admit the failure of those ideas and offer something different, rather than simply hiding the guy.